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EC13AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (02/2020)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.46” × 1.26” × 1.06”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”
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